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Lag Lunacy

Last month The Sun ran a story on how 1,200 lifers have been moved to open prisons alongside the heading “Lag Lunacy”. They wrote “You’d think someone would have twigged: if you want to keep serious offenders inside, it’s probably not such a great idea to put them in an open prison.”

The thing is, this just demonstrates The Sun’s own lunacy. The only way to cut the skyrocketing prison population, which The Sun frequently criticises, is to release people. So the point is that we don’t want to keep these offenders inside. We want to prepare them for a safe release. And that means open prisons need to provide a go between.

I’d have thought that that was really simple logic that even writers at The Sun could understand, but apparently not.